Andrew Walkingshaw of Timetric at News Innovation from Martin Belam on Vimeo.
From News Innovation: London. Thank you to Martin Belam for his very sympathetic editing!
Andrew here; Dan and I took part in NewsInnovation:London at NESTA on Friday 10th July (just under a week ago). I spoke alongside Tom Loosemore of 4iP about building tools to help journalists, and members of the public, get more out of public data.
If you’ve wondered what we’re doing with the Guardian, and more importantly why we’re doing it, here are some of the things we’ve been doing and the reasons why we’ve been doing them.
The video’s about four minutes long, and if nothing else, it’s a good opportunity to see (and poke fun at) what one of us on the Timetric team looks like! There is a serious point here, though: to give people better tools to find, view, share and analyse data is to empower people to make better-informed, more considered, smarter judgements — and it occurs to us that the best journalism has the same goal: to help people to understand and to decide. That’s something which really matters.
Thank you to Mark and the other organisers for putting on such an inspirational event.
